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• Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stomach acid is also why people with some eating disorders like bulimia have badly eroded teeth. The acid from throwing up constantly eats away at your teeth.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep. I’m always careful to rinse my mouth thoroughly after barfing, even if still nauseous

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just don’t immediately brush! It weakens your enamel, so swish and spit, and wait like half an hour to brush

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      • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I didn’t say that

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    • thawed_caveman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And the acidity makes normal tap water taste sweet as if it has sugar in it, it’s pretty neat

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• thawed_caveman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But in this situation you can drink water and wash it down, preventing acid damage to your eusophagus. The author of this greentext can’t get water into their intestines.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did I say I was trying to solve for greentext’s situation?

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